Katherine Zappone Envoy Gig

As is often the case, some important points are getting lost in the weeds of semantics here.

To reiterate what appears to have happened, and why it is potentially a big ol' juicy scandal:

• Zappone hosts a gathering for political elites at a time when said elites are still twisting themselves into knots warning the rest of the country of the grave dangers posed by this virus. The gathering was either illegal or against guidelines. The elites are not concerned by such pedantic arguments anyway because only smelly proles are stupid enough to catch Covid, and the elites are too smart and important to suffer the day-to-day indignities of the restrictions that they expect the rest of the country to follow. Guidelines are for normies after all, not the big important boys and girls who invented them.
• A short while later, Zappone is quietly and conveniently appointed a totally non makey-upey job without open competition. Looks like the elite party was a successful attempt at currying favour from important peers. Chimpanzee societies do the same thing before political upheaval, as an aside.
• Word gets leaked that the hotel event took place, shortly prior to Zappones controversial appointment. Media fail to even attempt to join the dots. It's crazy to suggest that the hotel bach is in any way connected to said appointment.
• There is some initial fuss about the appointment not being OKd by the Taoiseach but then media loses interest.
• In the meantime, the Tánaiste writes to the Attorney General in an arse-covering exercise, who swiftly and un-suspiciously clarifies that no guidelines were breached and actually the limit for outdoor gatherings has been 200 people for ages. Nobody else in the entire country knew about this increased capacity change. Dancing and music are suddenly no longer illegal, except for at weddings.
• Just as the story is gaining traction again (on social media), the legacy media use diversion tactics: Hey look over there! The Healy-Rae's hosted several MASKLESS Covidiots in their pub!
• Diversion largely works. The public don't care too much about the hotel gathering anymore because the legacy media aren't telling them to care about it. A handful of people on social media keep the story going for another week or two but are labelled as work-shy "conspiracy theorists" and shinners. Twitter subsequently gets involved and deletes tweets with a certain hashtag to remove it from the list of trending topics.

Few questions I would ask if I was a journalist

1. Who was in attendance? In particular, which TDs attended and were any RTÉ employees on the guestlist?
2. Was public money used?
3. Did everybody in attendance need to produce a digital C-19 passport?
4. If C-19 regulations weren't followed, will the hotel in question face any fines?

Personally I don't see this story going away, despite the transparent attempts to bury it.

But I have no idea how journalists appear to have no interest in pursuing a story that has the makings of a government-endingdebacle that could usher in a general election.

Why would she be stepping on toes .. Zappone has her own track record in relevant matters ?

peak Karen !!

do you really think Healy Rea's daughter conspired with the government to leak video of her auld fellas pub ...

there is zero evidence - zero even inkling of evidence that public money was used ... in actual fact the gig probably cost zappone about half the UN salary to host .. so even thinking that the dinner was to win favour and secure the €13k a year gig is bull.

we all know that Leo is as weak as they come and him running to the AG to cover his ass is par for the course .. that's an issue for him.

but the rest is nonsense .. no matter how dramatic you try make it sound.

BTW .. when you brought the Killgarven boys in to it you argument is as strong as what you'd find in the conspiracy theories thread about 5g and vaccines

And you can only have one envoy globally .. representing the 180 odd members ?

you are clutching at straws now ...

I know Zappone hasn't been doing interviews and Leo be dodging, but has Ivana been getting away too?

Has anyone asked Leo or Ivana who else was there. I can guess Baciks answer would be something like "erm.. I don't know, I was only in and out 15 minutes" but doubt here constituents would let her pull that.

Leo. ever the coward, would probably answer some bullcrap about not being able to comment or say who else was there. Doesn't want to name 45 FGers.. 😂

I’ll leave it at that so - don’t want to be the cause for raising your blood pressure any further.

Anyway - I’ll go back to my echo chamber where the vast majority couldn’t give a flyin F what happened in the Merrion